When you write opinionated commentary for a living you have to expect to make enemies. It goes with the job. You can�t be nice about people all the time, especially politicians. Even when you�re nice about them they take offence.
When you write opinionated commentary for a living you have to expect to make enemies. It goes with the job. You can't be nice about people all the time, especially politicians. Even when you're nice about them they take offence. However, I suspect I will lose more friends from this column than from any I have written - except, perhaps barring when I said that some of Burns' poetry is sentimental doggerel. Some icons really aren't worth being clastic about.
No, the reason this column will attract such ire is that I am about to tread on very dangerous territory indeed: Scotland's wild land. I have long believed that our unique refusal to introduce waymarking and a proper system of highland pathways is an anachronism. Now I am beginning to think it is more than that: it is pig-headed, conceited, environmentally damaging and, given the numbers going onto the hill, increasingly dangerous. Thousands of people come to Scotland from all over the world at this time of year to experience Scotland's mountains and are bemused and shocked to discover that there is no proper system of waymarking. It is time to end this silliness and start giving people the odd direction or two.
